On the 30th September, a few hours after a fall from a hay loft, at his residence, No 75, Swanston street, Mr Thomas Hunt, the son of Mr John Hunt, wine and spirit merchant, Burford, Oxfordshire. He has left a wife and four children.

AS, in consequence of the position which the Argus

has attained, we cponsider it incumbent upon us to bring out the best paper in the Australian Colonies, and as the number of new advertisements which we have to set up every day necessitated the keeping together a large body of compositors, we have made arrangements for their remuneration upon a most liberal scale.

Application to be made to Mr Frencham ; but none but steady respectable men, and first-rate workmen need apply.